The more films I study and enjoy, the better this one gets. I will stand before anyone and argue that this is absolutely one of the finest films ever made.
Great movie as most of Terry Gilliam's this like Charlie Chaplin / Modern Times meets Orwells 1984,,, Actually a lot like Stanislav Lem's novel "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub""
"Aaaah here we are! Your very own number, on your very own door. And behind that door, your very own office. Congratulations DZ/015, welcome to the team!" *pat*pat*
Its better than 1984 because it realises the totalitarian state is not only frighteningly powerful but hilariously incompetent. The whole plot revolves round a fly falling in a typewriter in the first scene
Well said. Also Brazil makes comedy from the rotten debauchery of elites (eg. Mother) whereas other dystopian horrors might portray them as soulless military-types. The only other film where I've seen this is _The Dark Crystal_ where its doomed rulers feast, bicker and joke their way towards extinction.
1984 is a book. They are both fantastic. Now if youre judging the 1984 film, well yeah;; But anyone knows that doesn't compare to the book. I wouldnt compare 1984 to this, as without 1984, you would not have Brazil.
@@DVincentW Fair but I'm just saying that 1984's world loses a lot of its realism because the state is so competent. Orwell himself commented that it was a "schoolboy fantasy dystopia" and compared with contemporaries like Brave New World or We I have to agree.
There was some creative use of space in this scene. Even though it looks like a cavernous building with endless hallways, there was in reality only one hallway; the impression is created through editing. Also, the hall wasn't that long; its appearance of receding to infinity was created with a perspective painting.
I'm working on taxes and just noticed that a notice I got from the California Secretary of State was signed by "Information Retrieval/Certification Unit". The future is now...
The Greatest Film ever made. This scene alone gives substance to Orwell's 1984: a society where citizens are so vigilated, they don't even need to see your documents. Amazing.
@lee pearson. Broader social concepts aside; the aesthetic of this Gilliam film also owes a lot to the the 1984 *Film* adaptation of 'Nineteen Eighty Four' as well. The original book and Gilliams vision are still very original in their own ways, however.
I work in a big government department and in this era of hot decking having my very own number on my very own door to my very own office sounds like absolute bliss. The future is simultaneously better and worse than most dystopias predicted.
I absolutely love the boss part of this. The conga-line like nature of these people trying to get things done with the head bureaucrat and Lowry just wait to jump in the line. Absolutely brilliant.
This first minute of this is my favorite scene in the movie because it really hammers in how conditioned everyone is to a ridiculous amount of security well beyond what is actually necessary for things to function well. Such a great movie!
I think it's also partially implying no one would voluntarily show up to Information Retrieval who didn't actually belong there. this makes sense when you consider what they actually do
An absolute Masterpiece this film. Great acting, great story, great directing, great locations, and it contains almost all the film genres. Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy, Romance, Thrill, Surealism..........it has it all......❤ If i could watch one film before dying...................I`d watch Brazil..............and die with a smile on my face..........🤗
@@amanryan6803 With that one Sam Lowry dude who doesn't quite fit in and if anything seems bored and detached from what they do, as if he's in his own world.
"Don't you want to search me?" "No, Sir." "You want to see my ID?" "No need, Sir." "But I could be anybody!" "No, you couldn't, Sir. This is Information Retrieval." I've always loved this exchange.
The big joke here is that it is a team of "decision makers", but everything is bottlenecked with the boss. A position with a drab gov't office with no agency.
Nice detail with the pipes here. Pipes are everywhere in this setting; most of the time in a disorderly heap. Here everything is neat and straight and soulless. Just like the institution itself.
I just realized that all governments need great buildings to induce the feeling of awe and fear in their subjects... imagine this scene taking place in a tent....
Good point. Whats funny is that in Kafka's "The Trial", the bureaucracy works out of the dirty attic of some run down apartment building, giving K the impression that the power of the bureaucracy is a joke...but it isn't a joke... Brazil is very Kafkaesque.
From a blog post reviewing the weird film _Polyester:_ "I can only report that it got exactly two laughs from me: one when Lu-Lu announces her conversion to the straight and narrow by squealing "I've discovered macramé!" (holding up what looks like a macramé birdcage), and then another [involving macramé recall]." Congratulations! You've discovered architecture (as I observe you sweeping your hand over an elaborate cardboard model of proposed inner-city makeover in the mode of Radiant City Beautiful). "Designed in the 1920s by Le Corbusier, one of Modernism's most influential architects, the 'Radiant City' was to be a linear and ordered metropolis of the future. It was ambitious, a blueprint not only for a more rational urban environment but also for radical social reform."
Yes, except today it's called the NSA. (Oddly enough, when I tried to comment on *this* movie Google suddenly wanted my full name and gender first even though I alredy have a youtube account! Another prediction come true.)
Well this is 4 years too late but mate the song is called Brazil it is by a famous Brazillian musician originally although the versions in the film are by various including Kate Bush, Frank Sinatra et al. :)
hahahaa no its not!! i no that song, i have that song the MAIN theme is called Brazil, and if you listen to this you can tell it is distictively different from brazil.
It is a dramatic excerpt from the song Brazil. Here are a few of the many recordings available to listen to: Carmen Cavallaro version: you tube . com / watch?v=aH3xQrmp1SI Xavier Cugat version: you tube . com / watch?v=YnCwClK7fCU Frank Sinatra version: you tube . com / watch?v=YgG1Sd9-sFY Pink Martini version: you tube . com / watch?v=5DKxiztGUiM Feel free to search 'Brazil samba' or 'Brazil song'. Undoubtedly there are many other performances to check out. :D
The more films I study and enjoy, the better this one gets.
I will stand before anyone and argue that this is absolutely one of the finest films ever made.
Great movie as most of Terry Gilliam's this like Charlie Chaplin / Modern Times meets Orwells 1984,,, Actually a lot like Stanislav Lem's novel "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub""
"Aaaah here we are! Your very own number, on your very own door. And behind that door, your very own office. Congratulations DZ/015, welcome to the team!" *pat*pat*
Its better than 1984 because it realises the totalitarian state is not only frighteningly powerful but hilariously incompetent. The whole plot revolves round a fly falling in a typewriter in the first scene
brilliant comment!!!
Well said. Also Brazil makes comedy from the rotten debauchery of elites (eg. Mother) whereas other dystopian horrors might portray them as soulless military-types. The only other film where I've seen this is _The Dark Crystal_ where its doomed rulers feast, bicker and joke their way towards extinction.
1984 is a book. They are both fantastic. Now if youre judging the 1984 film, well yeah;; But anyone knows that doesn't compare to the book. I wouldnt compare 1984 to this, as without 1984, you would not have Brazil.
@@DVincentW Fair but I'm just saying that 1984's world loses a lot of its realism because the state is so competent. Orwell himself commented that it was a "schoolboy fantasy dystopia" and compared with contemporaries like Brave New World or We I have to agree.
@@DVincentW without 1984 you would not have brazil? I don't think so seeing how terry gilliam have never read 1984 the book while making this movie.
There was some creative use of space in this scene. Even though it looks like a cavernous building with endless hallways, there was in reality only one hallway; the impression is created through editing. Also, the hall wasn't that long; its appearance of receding to infinity was created with a perspective painting.
I love how they shoehorned him into the department by cutting someone elses office in half.
Someone in an office I used to work in just got a desk in a hallway so this is better lol
Never realized that.
The filming locations did it for me. All the corridors and rooms look utterly soulless yet beautiful.
I'm working on taxes and just noticed that a notice I got from the California Secretary of State was signed by "Information Retrieval/Certification Unit". The future is now...
LOL I know..
It is Communazifornia, what else would you expect?
Yep the Coof = group think...
The Ministry of Income Retrieval
The Greatest Film ever made. This scene alone gives substance to Orwell's 1984: a society where citizens are so vigilated, they don't even need to see your documents. Amazing.
@lee pearson. Broader social concepts aside; the aesthetic of this Gilliam film also owes a lot to the the 1984 *Film* adaptation of 'Nineteen Eighty Four' as well. The original book and Gilliams vision are still very original in their own ways, however.
This is happening in the 21st Century Ask the Chinese .. exchange The Steam punk with Computers, Algorithms and A.I. Facial Recognition.
I work in a big government department and in this era of hot decking having my very own number on my very own door to my very own office sounds like absolute bliss. The future is simultaneously better and worse than most dystopias predicted.
Wish we could have a bit more of Mr. Warren, the guy was clearly having a fun time playing him.
One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies. The timing of the dialog is perfect. Love the background music.
I absolutely love the boss part of this. The conga-line like nature of these people trying to get things done with the head bureaucrat and Lowry just wait to jump in the line. Absolutely brilliant.
This first minute of this is my favorite scene in the movie because it really hammers in how conditioned everyone is to a ridiculous amount of security well beyond what is actually necessary for things to function well. Such a great movie!
I think it's also partially implying no one would voluntarily show up to Information Retrieval who didn't actually belong there. this makes sense when you consider what they actually do
Before he was high sparrow at the king's landing, he was working as an information retrieval agent in his youth. wow, times change.
An absolute Masterpiece this film. Great acting, great story, great directing, great locations, and it contains almost all the film genres. Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy, Romance, Thrill, Surealism..........it has it all......❤
If i could watch one film before dying...................I`d watch Brazil..............and die with a smile on my face..........🤗
I imagine, this is what working for TH-cam must be like.
👏 👏👏 I picture more bitter people with Kool aid hair.
@@amanryan6803 With that one Sam Lowry dude who doesn't quite fit in and if anything seems bored and detached from what they do, as if he's in his own world.
people who work at TH-cam don't get their own offices.
"Don't you want to search me?"
"No, Sir."
"You want to see my ID?"
"No need, Sir."
"But I could be anybody!"
"No, you couldn't, Sir. This is Information Retrieval."
I've always loved this exchange.
We don't need to see your identification. This is information retrieval. Not identification verification!
Magnificent film. It's sad to realize I belong to the last generation that will be able to understand it.
im not sure thats true, im a zoomer and i understand this from having to navigate the british healthcare system, and the immigration system.
Notice at 3:38 , his office is two doors down from _room 101_
i love this movie
Congratulations! Welcome to the team!
Oh, jeez. I only just noticed now for the first time… Mr. Warren.
In charge of a warren of his own.
That's Ian Richardson! Bill Haydon from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Sam's starting his first day working for Facebook
Inappropriate content research.
The big joke here is that it is a team of "decision makers", but everything is bottlenecked with the boss. A position with a drab gov't office with no agency.
Good point
I'd go nuts having to go anywhere up high in an elevator that slow
Nice detail with the pipes here. Pipes are everywhere in this setting; most of the time in a disorderly heap. Here everything is neat and straight and soulless. Just like the institution itself.
Terry Gilliam is a fucking genius.
Parabéns,ja ganhou mais uma inscrita ❤
then please thank Roger Pratt, rhe cinematographer. Gilliam, ofcourse, had vision..... But it was pratt who brought it forth... Stunningly.
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Muito legal esse vídeo
Si je ne devais prendre qu un seul film dans l espace où sur une île déserte ce serait BRASIL
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A lot of films from the 70s and 80s sing very close to the mark 2 today in 2024 like we were trying to be warned😂
We've got a crack team of-are they kidding?-decision makers!
I just realized that all governments need great buildings to induce the feeling of awe and fear in their subjects... imagine this scene taking place in a tent....
Good point. Whats funny is that in Kafka's "The Trial", the bureaucracy works out of the dirty attic of some run down apartment building, giving K the impression that the power of the bureaucracy is a joke...but it isn't a joke... Brazil is very Kafkaesque.
From a blog post reviewing the weird film _Polyester:_ "I can only report that it got exactly two laughs from me: one when Lu-Lu announces her conversion to the straight and narrow by squealing "I've discovered macramé!" (holding up what looks like a macramé birdcage), and then another [involving macramé recall]."
Congratulations! You've discovered architecture (as I observe you sweeping your hand over an elaborate cardboard model of proposed inner-city makeover in the mode of Radiant City Beautiful).
"Designed in the 1920s by Le Corbusier, one of Modernism's most influential architects, the 'Radiant City' was to be a linear and ordered metropolis of the future. It was ambitious, a blueprint not only for a more rational urban environment but also for radical social reform."
SEND 2 COPIES TO FINANCE!!!
Thanks so much!! :)
Yes, except today it's called the NSA.
(Oddly enough, when I tried to comment on *this* movie Google suddenly wanted my full name and gender first even though I alredy have a youtube account! Another prediction come true.)
1984 PART 2, Firkin brilliant !
1984 part two: 1985
If you mean the one in the hall, Rhapsodian Blue, Fantasia 2000 really taught me things :D
Reminds me of my job
Well this is 4 years too late but mate the song is called Brazil it is by a famous Brazillian musician originally although the versions in the film are by various including Kate Bush, Frank Sinatra et al. :)
Greta Pylyp
4 years ago
does anyone know what the song is called??
Gar Higenout Aquarela Brasileira
harry potter borrows/homages from this film a little for order of the phoenix and hallows part 1 haha, amazing film gilliam
what is the music that starts playing at 2:43
agreed.
Visionario, Simbolista, Borgesiano...Oniriche metafore Labirintiche!
Does somebody know the name of the song that plays in this part?
my friend its everybody's fkin job hence the hilarity
hahahaa no its not!! i no that song, i have that song
the MAIN theme is called Brazil, and if you listen to this you can tell it is distictively different from brazil.
Hi can someone say the similarities and difference between this movies and modern technology
It is a dramatic excerpt from the song Brazil.
Here are a few of the many recordings available to listen to:
Carmen Cavallaro version: you tube . com / watch?v=aH3xQrmp1SI
Xavier Cugat version: you tube . com / watch?v=YnCwClK7fCU
Frank Sinatra version: you tube . com / watch?v=YgG1Sd9-sFY
Pink Martini version: you tube . com / watch?v=5DKxiztGUiM
Feel free to search 'Brazil samba' or 'Brazil song'. Undoubtedly there are many other performances to check out. :D
I think Armstrong and Miller borrowed more than a little from this scene.
lol, that must be the most "facepalmable" question
Of course! 8D
Oh God it's Francis Urquhart
This is what Snowden revealed about the NSA.
Information retrieval collected David Miranda's hard discs.... in Heathrow not the future :(
Well this is Gilliam, though. He's American.
does anyone know what the song is called??
*facepalm* It's Brazil.... Frank Sinatra being the most famous performer of the song.
ripoff from twilight zone, obsolete man